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The night before Christmas is a Christmas poetry book. The story explains how children wait on Santa Claus to come visit their home at night. The children go to bed early and have sweet dreams. Santa finally arrives to the home and makes quite a ruckus as he arrives. The children spring out of their beds, and run to the window to see Santa and his reindeer. Santa then calls each reindeer by name, and Santa has the reindeer go to the top of the house. Santa then comes down the Chimney, and is covered in soot. The poem then explains how Santa appears; dimples, cherry nose, and a white beard are some of Santa’s physical characteristics. Santa then goes to work by filling up the stockings. He then turns and leaves the home and dashes away with the reindeer in the night.

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The night before Christmas is a Christmas story of how children wait for Santa the night before Christmas. Santa is spotted along with his reindeer and goes to work inside the home leaving presents, and then turns and leaves.